MARTHA DODRAY I salute this lady for her deeds

I salute this lady for her deeds. How difficult it is to convince the illiterates ,which she did lonely in her mission to make india polio free.
A lady who can be the great inspiration for our young generation. Who provoked people to come together and cooperate to remove polio.

About Martha Dodray

      • Martha Dodray is an Auxiliary Nurse & Midwife (ANM) from Darbhanga district of Bihar

      • She represented the worldwide polio frontline workers. Her contribution cause was               recognized by United Nations Foundation in 2013 and awarded .

Early life and carrer  

Martha Dodray, a health worker from Bihar,She travels several kilometres a day under tough  conditions in one of the most backward rural hinterlands of Bihar to administer polio drops to  children in the area.

 She lives alone at a Primary Health Centre without electricity, leaving her own children in far-away Jharkhand only to ensure that children of the area are free of polio .

A matriculate, Martha says: “I hardly meet my children once or twice a year. I can’t really rest till every child is polio free.”                                                                                                           A frontline polio worker from Darbhanga district in Bihar, Martha’s efforts of eight years to eliminate  polio from Darbhanga got her acknowledgement from the UN Foundation. She was honoured at the Global Leadership Awards 2013 in New York by the UN Foundation and United Nations Association of the US.

“I am happy that polio has been  

eradicated from the area. It gives me

 know about the crippling virus and

are forth coming to take the drops,

which was not the case a few years

ago,” she says. 

immense pleasure that people now

 In her 40s, Martha is an auxiliary nursing midwife posted at the health  centre in Darbhanga. 

She was recently selected as one of the best polio workers in India for her devotion and hard work in vaccination drives. Bihar has not reported a single case of polio in the last three years and has been polio  free since 2010. India is also  declared polio free. 

Martha, the only person from the Asian region chosen for the honour, has just returned from New York where she received the award. She said she was delighted and felt honoured to receive the award at a  global stage .                                     

. “We need to work

together to eliminate polio from

regions where the disease still

exists. I will work harder in this

field,” she says. 

She pleasantly surprised everyone by speaking in Hindi in the UN. She said she was humbled by the honour and had never thought that she would come to the US and meet global dignitaries who would speak about her work.

She was joined on stage by UN ambassadors from Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Awards and recognition

The award was given in recognition of the roles to individuals, organizations, and corporations played in supporting the work of the United Nations’ to advance global peace, justice, and prosperity. The United Nations Foundation and the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) honored recipients of the 2013 Global Leadership Awards at the annual Global Leadership Dinner in New York City.

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